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FFXIV Class Concept: Oracle
Because I should probably put my fancy ideas that at least some of you will enjoy reading somewhere other than youtube comments every now and then. Save 'em for posterity or whatever.
This post will make more sense if you're familiar with the Shadowbringers Normal Raid series, as it reuses concepts seen therein.
The Oracle is a caster-melee hybrid (classified as Caster DPS) which wields a Gavel (a one- or two-handed blunt-force melee weapon which fires spells from the pommel). It focuses on dealing damage in large but less-frequent bursts, while planning ahead to deal even greater burst damage during the appropriate buff windows.
Oracle's core class feature is Spell-in-Waiting, a single-use self-buff which alters the function of certain spells, similar to Sage's Eukrasia. Activating Spell-in-Waiting makes your next basic spell cast instantly, but apply as a debuff which detonates after ~6 seconds.
Casting a basic spell at an enemy afflicted with Spell-in-Waiting will enhance the Waiting spell based on the elements of the spells involved. Oracle eventually gains access to Dark, Light, and Unaspected damage types, which are each associated with particular effects.
Normally, the spells just do raw damage, but striking an enemy afflicted with a Waiting spell may change how the spell detonates, applying AoE patterns, healing, buffs, or debuffs.
Thus, the rotation runs:
Spell-in-Waiting > basic spell
basic spell (enhances Waiting)
melee strike (modifies, detonates Waiting)
...Which I think is a fairly unique combat flow. You're encouraged to stay in melee range (though any number of other mechanics, such as healer AoE sizes, already do), and become vulnerable right before your burst goes off (basic spells have a default 2-second cast time, to purposefully ratchet that tension and grant the satisfaction of the spell and melee hit going off near-simultaneously).
In addition to an expanding elemental repertoire, Oracle also gains Stock Strike, which stores a copy of a Spell-in-Waiting for future use. This could be cast on its own, but would optimally be used to create a third-stage Spell-in-Waiting (operating on Monk chakra rules, you'd want either monotype or omnitype for optimal results).
Please do not ask me how quickcast interacts with this kit.
#ffxiv#blatant speculation#in honor of the storefront's latest cosmetic lmao#I'm sure it's just a coincidence but I'm hoping it's not#it feels so right to me that I sometimes forget it's not real
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okay so I have work in the morning and laundry to put away and will probably gotta snack somewhere in there as well so This Is of course The Perfect Time to reprise and refine the incoherent ramble I've given twice now on stream
this post will contain spoilers for P5 basegame, royal, and strikers, and some early-game spoilers for tactica. tread lightly if you still care about any of that.
let's talk Lavenza.
rewinding to her first appearance at the end of P5, two major factors immediately establish themselves that set her apart from other velvet residents:
she is as much a victim of abuse as any of the other PThieves. Yaldy's got gaslight gatekeep girlboss on lock, obviously, but the whole bisection thing is... is that physical abuse? lobotomization? some kind of violence upon the soul itself? fucked up, is what it is.
The whole squad knows she exists. Setting aside Morgana's personal connection to her, she's this weird lonely girl they found in superjail. Obviously circumstances were dire enough at the time that they couldn't, like, hang out. but like, it's implied in Strikers that Joker still hasn't explained how the velvet room works to anyone. did she never come up in conversation again? did they all just Amnesia her the moment she stepped out of frame?
the next closest velvet resident, in both narrative and thematic resonance and chronological proximity, is P4G's Marie, and they built a whole fuckin' storyline around her. so when Igor dips at the end of P5, then stayed dipped during Third Semester, leaving Lavenza to manage the velvet room all alone, well. my brain started churning. was she just. in charge now? was the space between dream and reality and mind and matter under new management?
I know you like a good overworked office lady, and that's rubbed off into my specific vision of an older lavenza in some future mainline Persona: stuck behind that blue desk, books strewn about, coffee pot hissing in the back, eyebags, frayed hair, the works. so when I heard Strikers was a genuine sequel, which still didn't seem to contain Igor? in that moment of clarity, Haru dropped to my second favorite character in the game.
hey. you know how our good friend pita wrote an extremely good fic lamenting atlus' failure to capitalize on narrative themes and character backstories in Strikers? well Let's! Talk! Lavenza!
in Strikers- the summer vacation game, deliberately intended to be a lighter-hearted power fantasy about friends having fun on a roadtrip together, Lavenza is:
sad,
a menu.
y'hear that?
that's the sound of incredible disappointment supercompressing into loathing and vitriol!
she doesn't get to hang out! with the cool people she cares about! they don't give her an Elizabeth bit where you can socialize with a weirdo disconnected from physical reality in various humorous circumstances! it's all I'm Sorry, Trickster this or I'm Amazed, Trickster that. living plot summary and walking talking UI interface, except she hardly walks talks or lives at all.
atlus, true to form, squanders yet another opportunity.
recently, someone tweeted some concept art of Tactica's leblanc. here are those images.
they were posted in this order, suggesting they were drawn in this order. the second one contains a new playable character. the first one contains Lavenza. the new playable character is called "Elle" in Japanese. Lavenza sends you a letter in the game which, on inspection, is sealed with wax stamped with a stylized "L".
did something happen between point A and B? was there a decision to replace one with the other? are there artifacts of an earlier time yet unmodified to save time and budget? Erina first shows up heavily clothed to obscure her features, but only briefly. yet, that swathed figure shows up- briefly- in the OP that plays whenever you turn on the game. was her identity meant to remain hidden for longer? would that have mattered more if her identity was different?
Lavenza has a new outfit in Tactica, featuring a leather apron and and welder's visor. she also, per Fusion Accidents in P5 and Royal, has a chainsaw. so an outfit change, a mask, and a melee weapon which all fit a certain fictional aesthetic (slasher villain). if she had a gun, she'd have everything she'd need to be a phantom thief, right? well I don't think she's been seen with a flamethrower, but it'd match the aesthetic, compliment the heavy machinery of the chainsaw, and wouldn't even be that out of place in her new forge.
do you see. do you get it. I am going insane and so I just don't! think about it! because the possibility! however faint! is not yet zero!!!
I'm going to stream all of Tactica if I can, so I might not reach confirmation for any of this for a while. I'm pretty sure she'll reunite with the Thieves proper whenever The Train rolls in? but god knows when that'll be.
oi. ATLUS. if she's not playable yet. I'm the idiot who'd shell out for that DLC. make it happen.
(playable lavenza truther voice) what do you mean erina used to be called L. what do you mean. what do you mean. wh
i have performed the 15 seconds of research required to obtain the answer. disregard previous message.
no no keep talking, bring us into your beautiful mind
#p5#p5t#lavenza#blatant speculation#I think ideally her persona would be Joker#not JOKER (P2) unless you wanna get silly with it#more like the public cognition of joker as a supernatural criminal#hunched and bestial like a cat with a big ol' gem and a big ol' cape and horrible sexyman proportions#claws for physical attacks; throws gem as bomb for magic#Joker is her evolved persona representing their mutual reliance as one who covets power and one who has no purpose but to provide power#C+J would use Lucifer as much out of velvet tradition as actual thematic resonance#''wouldn't her persona being joker get confusing though?'' not if she keeps calling him trickster lmao#her ultimate persona is. of course. Atlas.
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guys i’m thinking…thinking thoughts…the promo shows a fire breaking out on the plane… and they specifically showed the hole at the back getting bigger…and tbh that hole has to be a chekhov’s gun because why even put it there in the first place…
and now i’m picturing hen, chim, eddie and tommy going rogue again, stealing a helicopter and rappelling down through the hole to put the fire out…..here’s how the airport 1975 theory can still happen 🤓
#it’s delulu hours for me i guess#just make it happen tim come on#why make such blatant reference to the film without including the coolest part 😭#hen wilson#chimney han#eddie diaz#tommy kinard#911 speculation#911 abc
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2x01: “You could have my back any day.”
“Yeah. Or, you know, you could … you could have mine.”
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2x07: “What did you need that I didn’t give you?”
… “I needed someone to have my back!”
#season 2!!#they said all this in season 2!!#this is my biggest buddie trutherism#like the most blatant parallel they could’ve possibly made and eddie hadn’t been on the show for half a season even when they executed it#Tim I’m trusting the vision please also trust the vision#buddie#eddieshannon#911 abc#911 meta#911 speculation#eddie diaz#evan buckley#shannon diaz
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What do you think of the Heather was kept in the game by the producers for ratings/drama theory?
What do you mean, theory? That's literally canon.
In World Tour, at least. Heather's contunied "survival" through Island is mostly happenstance and, from a meta standpoint, plot armour, but in-universe it's mostly a lot of coincidences resulting in her not being voted out from her team.
In World Tour? The only thing keeping Heather around was the fact that her team always seemed to miraculously lose when that episode's challenge was a rewards challenge.
Alejandro's sabotaging of Team Victory helped out with that a bit, but a lot of Heather's "luck" in World Tour fell solely on the shoulders of the producers wanting to keep her around. She's a conflict generator, the conflict generator, and that paired with her looks and her entertaining personality make her a "rating's jewel". Of course they want to keep her around for as long as possible, and it just so happens that Chris already established that rewards challenges won't be disclosed until after the losers were determined. Ergo, should Heather's team lose and inevitably vote her off, Chris can just claim it was a rewards challenge the whole time.
It's not just that though. There's other, smaller instances of favouritism towards Heather in World Tour that lend credence to this.
Her team got lost in the Amazon? The "zing-zings" worship her as a goddess and, oh, give her a golden tooth to replace the one Leshawna knocked out of her mouth the previous episode - convenient that they would go out of their way to "fix" Heather's appearence, it's almost as if her looks are a big part of her appeal (in-universe) and therefore the show's viewership.
Chris outright tells Alejandro that he's not allowed to have DJ join their team, but has no qualms about Heather cozying up to him throughout Newfoundland - implying he was more than happy for Heather to recruit DJ (a known strong contestant) to her side, making her elimination more unlikely.
This isn't so much a theory as it is just looking deeper at the source material itself; the dots areall there, and it takes very little effort to connect them. The producers wanted to keep Heather around because she's good for ratings and good at causing drama - the show's whole brand. In doing so enabled her antagonist-to-antihero arc against Alejandro which only generated more audience engagement (and consequently avenue) and incentivisined them to keep pulling strings to ensure she stayed on the show for as long as possible.
#got a bit rambly there but i guess my answer in short is; yeah i agree with it#heather's plot armour was a meta thing in island but an in-universe canonical aspect of wt#because if it isn't it just means i'm giving the show's writing team too much credit#making heather's blatant favouritism a known in-universe phenomenon just makes sense#total drama#td heather#in-universe speculation#replies
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To The Metal Gear Fandom
Okay so silly question but i see a lot of yall on here and you say all the homoerotic stuff in mgs is canon right? Especially otasune, bbkaz, bosselot. Not to sound like a hater but the first game came out in 1998. You know what age hideo Kojima was back then? 36 with a wife and kids. So what's his real purpose for making a whole game series about a buncha gay guys? That's what leads me to believe it's unintentional but idk. If he said why then lmk cause I dont get why he would? I've been thinking about this a lot recently because I've been seeing a lot of people saying it's deliberate. Anyone can answer btw my askbox is open because i Need an explanation. More in tags cause im insane.
#mgs#Metal gear solid#solid snake#Otasune#Bosselot#Vkaz#Bbkaz#Don't come at me mad btw im literally a gay guy so it's not like I mind it 😈#Its just I get confused when mgs is praised for like . rep? its not rep if it's ambiguous really..And like why would he even care#Enough to make it his lifes work when he's straight. Mayb closeted but its so weird to speculate on anothers sexuality 😭 I see people do it#Idkkkk im thinking the ppl that point out the blatant homophobia have it right. Only villains being explicitly queer and raikov well. exist#My friend says the beach date w kaz is mocking his admiration like Ooh hoooo someone has a big ol crush on Big Boss. Ocelot too#Hes also gay btw but neither of us could come with a good reason other than hes closeted but that seems unlikely. Infact he said so I think#It makes more sense in my mind that Kojima accidentally made the gayest series ever. He's an ally though thanks Kojima 👍
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anytime people reblog my hellfire s5 post i can go back to being amazed that they made TWO separate hellfire photo props and how they deliberately switched to a version that includes Dustin, Lucas, and Mike for all the wanted posters, instead of sticking to the presumably older yearbook picture we see them have at first
for reference: the hellfire club photo we get first, with Eddie and the members of his band, but also others like the people on the right who presumably graduated
and the hellfire photo we see during Jason's speech for the first time, now featuring the party, which also ends up plastered on the wanted posters in places like the gun store
like, damn, they really went out of their way to make two separate yearbook photo props and showed Jason deliberately went out of his way to find a newer photo to include all of current hellfire for his satanism speech accusing them of ritualistic murder. man did his research
and how that alone already shows how important it was to even the prop department to drag the party into the hellfire mess headfirst since they already had a photo of Eddie in hellfire Jason could have used. but no
they deliberately update to a version including the party
it's just such a fun detail to me bc it's such a background thing too. they just switch to a photo of modern day hellfire when Jason starts accusing the whole club instead of just Eddie, no big deal. with the only exception being the party being on them, since it's their first year in higschool. that change was really for them wasn't it, so fun to me
#i'm still excited about hellfire s5#just because of how blatant they're being with the set up of trouble coming from it in s4#they really went out of their way to make things look as bad as possible for the party re hellfire and i appreciate the dedication#st s5 speculations
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Actually it bothers me so much when people in fandom refer to a pregnant trans man as a "mother" or "mommy". Like for fucks sake guys, that's a man. And yknow, when reading through that subreddit for pregnant trans men, some of them mentioned that they Do go by "mom" or "mama" with their kids, but others expressed visceral discomfort with it!!! Which ultimately, it's the individual's choice regarding what they're comfortable with, but if You, a Cis Person, are equating a man being pregnant to him being "feminine" (aka a Mother), then that's a fucking Problem.
I might have to include a disclaimer on my own trans pregnancy fic to Not Fucking Call Him Mom. Or it's on fucking Sight.
#speculation nation#pregnancy ment/#transphobia ment/#in fact i'll even extend the 'dont fucking do that' to if youre not cis but not a trans man.#i dont think nonbinary people should be gendering them like that either.#i think i'd be okay with it only if it's a trans guy himself. bc that implies it's smth he's comfortable with For himself.#otherwise? it feels like blatant misgendering. come on guys.#(also. editing to add that this extends to misgendering nonbinary characters who might be pregnant#the original focus was from what ive seen about trans male characters but it's bad for nonbinary characters too)
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It's kinda laughable to me when people bring up Meg telling Jo that Dean only saw her as a little sister as like, definitive proof that's how he felt. Like demons never lie just to fuck with people
#Dean's blatant advances are 'up to interpretation' but the word of a demon is incontrovertible#yes when Jo asks if demons ever tell the truth Dean says yeah sometimes#but that was meant to make her BELIEVE that what Meg said is true (you know for angst reasons. also as a good reason for Jo not to be on th#show for awhile) not proof that she was telling the truth#people also assume that what Meg said about how her dad died was true which I mean it's very believable but#we also can't know that for sure#ALSO has anybody considered that maybe Meg said Dean only sees her as a sister because that's what Sam thinks?#Sam's perception is also not sound. why wouldn’t Sam believe that if Dean never slept with her? because up until then Dean had been very#promiscuous. so if he didn't try to sleep with her he must not like her right?#Sam wasn't listening to the wrong place wrong time conversation he doesn't know that#and again all of this speculation literally doesn't matter because we KNOW it was a lie because actions speak louder than words#em rambles#not to be bitchy on main but. come on#also please for the love of god do not use this post to bring up Zachariah's au okay Zachariah's au didn't mean shit because it wasn't real
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So I’m curious about your post about fiction that changed you! Noragami is one of my favorite shows so I’m interested in what about it affected you? (hope it was a positive change lol!)
It was! Like the song Suffering Servant, I think Noragami was really instrumental in turning my thoughts away from endless rationalizations of God’s existence and toward the Cross. There’s a reason it’s very popular among Christian anime fans (though that reputation developed after I had watched it, and I had actually put off watching it because—not yet knowing much about modern Japanese culture—I was afraid it would be wrong to watch a show starring the Shinto gods).
I think it would be very difficult for any Christian to watch Yukine sin ruthlessly while Yato takes the physical blight for each misdeed—willing to suffer even unto death to cleanse Yukine of the evil that will otherwise condemn him (and seemingly purely out of a love Yukine has not earned)—and not be utterly bowled over by a wave of gospel parallels, no matter how dry your wells of faith seem to be.
And there’s also the sanctification-esque dynamic wherein Yato sees Yukine floating along, claims him, gives him a name, and then not only makes him a formidable weapon, but hones Yukine into a better weapon over time by nurturing a relationship with him. (Obviously, Yato is also a deeply flawed individual, so this is sometimes a two-way street, but the effect is still so striking.)
At 17, I needed to forget the intricacies of doctrine that had me tied in existential knots and look instead to the Cross where all my doubts and despair had been forgiven, and Noragami was like a spoon stirring my brains around to be primely positioned for that eventual leap of faith.
#duality of Yato lmao#it’s been speculated that Adachitoka know a thing or two about Christian theology because the parallels are that blatant so#this is not to say that doctrine is bad — far be it from me!#but I had lost the forest for the trees if that makes sense#mobile#x#Christianity#Noragami#analysis#and and and! in the manga Yukine gets all these little arcs where he is alternately discipled by and discipler of other Shinki#perhaps a reread is due this year
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I am like 86% sure the yaoi bit started bc aimee wanted to call scott and ran surviving longer in hole in the wall a "yaoi win"
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This is the first time i'm honestly interested in how the good old ga interpreted the episode...Like we know our best friends here on tumblr will have a post out in no time about how they are "JuST lIKe thAt wiTH [tHEir] fRIends", but the ga doesn't make an effort to no-homo every scene, they take things at face value.
frankly, i don't think that in the event of buddie going canon, it would take a lot to convince the GA that it's realistic or whatever. 911 has had a bunch of queer couples and queer storylines, and while yes, two previously assumed to be straight male characters getting together would be a different beast, i still don't think it would like. be as big of a dealbreaker as some people assume it to be. even if they don't start making it super obvious for the GA before getting them together, a simple montage of their development through the show might do the trick to clue the GA in, just as they have their first kiss or love confession or whatever. and s6 does love it's montages.
#i do think parts of the GA were starting to be clued in since 6x12 tho#the couch metaphor has been really blatant#neethu answers#anon#911 speculation
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interesting here that alongside maria battler is also immediately able to identify the first of the golden witch's omens.
#umineko liveblog#ep1 reread#given that maria is right about everything and this is a pretty blatant Sign of beatrice's emergence/presence#i think there's something here about battler who is furthest removed from the ushiromiya family immediately noticing it#to circle back to all that stuff about embracing/noticing/rejecting magic#battler who later denies the existence of magic still is among the first to recognise its effects#even if he goes against his base instincts and tries to explain it with facts and logic#but given that some subconsious part of him is this sharp i wonder what would happen in a direct interaction between himself and beatrice#or like. as direct as you can get when beatrice only exists in obfuscation and metaphor and narrative speculation#so less a 'battler and beatrice in the same room' scenario#and more a 'beatrice uses her magic to directly target battler' scenario#and idk how magic is being defined in a greater context#but it seems that ushiromiya = not perceiving the magic#and battler who is trying to reintegrate can perceive it on a base level but his higher order thinking rejects it#which means that for maximal omen freakout i think you should stick kanon (magic believer who rejects the ushiromiyas) on the boat
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was watching a video on how shit the pocahontas movie is and thinking about the mystification of native americans in media and how they're usually shown to be serious, quiet, and typically not very emotive- i have just realised that i cannot imagine a native american child being silly and having fun because i've literally never seen that before and that is so fucked
#like i just. they've been mystified and their histories have been rewritten and erased and destroyed#to where i don't even have an image in my mind of them being normal fucking emotive humans#that's so supremely fucked up#that their entire culture has been boiled down to such few traits that seeing anything beside that is surprising#like oh my fucking GOD there is such little fucking representation in media of native peoples#i was severely socially isolated growing up so the way i learned about other cultures was solely via media#and the fact that the only native representation i saw as a child was between fucking peter pan and pocahontas#so: blatant racism and fully rewriting history#and then a few shitty books i read in elementary school about white kids “becoming” natives by. living in a tribe for a year or smthn#and that's ALL I GOT???#so in my head i literally just have a single homogenized image of the HUNDREDS of groups of natives OF THIS ENTIRE FUCKING CONTINENT#i've never met a native person. in my racist ass hometown they were talked about like a fucking extinct species.#like as in. i was genuinely told in schools that native tribes just fully dont exist anymore.#i was assigned projects speculating about them in the exact same way we did with fucking dinosaurs and ice age animals#and all this has been so deeply ingrained into my skull that *i literally cannot imagine a native child FUCKING LAUGHING*#that's so supremely fucked up like. i dont even have a good conclusion to my thought here that's just fucked up.
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I just finished God Of War (2018), and man, it feels good to enjoy an action game I would actually recommend to people for once
#not devil may cry#quen speaking#after the ugly boomer humor in doom: eternal#and the blatant mysoginy and racism in dmc5#gow is a breath of fresh air#i mean tbf i don't know how much credit i can give gow for not being racist when there aren't any non-white characters in the game#it doesn't have any obviously terrible representation in that regard like dmc5#but it doesn't have any positive representation either#because as far as i know there is none#though i know some fans speculate that kratos isn't white#and i haven't been to the two optional realms yet so maybe there's more characters to meet#this isn't really a serious criticism i just think it's important to temper my praise for the game#include an asterisk where it seems fit
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the pain and suffering of trying to find genshin theorist youtubers who aren’t really annoying to watch.
#it doesn't help that so many voices are so... so... annoying#there's one who has some good videos but she has a really high voice with like the sharpest S's omfg#it's not like a critique of her or anything like she's not doing some weird performative voice or anything#whistling S's just make my skin crawl#the really annoying ones Ive encountered tho present the most outlandish ideas like OMG GUYS LOOK AT IT IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!#like all the theorists make wild speculations don't get me wrong#but the ones Ive really liked have these like tinfoil hat disclaimers lmfao#like they're super upfront with the fact that its based on next to nothing and probably wont happen but it's fun to think about#mostly though Ive been looking for lorists who recount a lot of the less blatant lore#the stuff hidden in artifact sets and narratively in journals#especially when the information is super scattered and non linear#it's nice to have someone lay it out clearly#I'm not reading artifact descriptions and trying to translate allegory to actual happenings
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